This is an analysis of the poem Living! that begins with:

Living!
To not value the experience, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBCDEF afgfXb abgbbd afbXbd acgachcc aBCDEFhb eiiifcfcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,8,8,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 011000100 11100010 0011010101 101110101 1001110101 10 010111110 1101001 10101 100100 011010100 10 001011 0010100101 111010100 101000100 111101000101 10 110110101 1001001101 1100101000 1001001101 101 10 010101010010 0101101001 100001010110 1100100101 110111110101 1101001 110011 10 011000100 11100010 0011010101 101110101 1001110101 101101 00111000110 111111 1110101 011110101 1001101 110111110 0011101 11011110101 11110101 0 111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

    The author used the same word living at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Living!;
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  • history of its creation;
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